Journeying into the Unknown – 28th September 2006
Glyn Collinson of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory gave us an interesting and well-received talk titled “Solar Orbiter – Journeying into the Unknown“ about the …
Meetings Reports
We meet every month, usually on the fourth Thursday of the month, (the December meeting will generally be on the third Thursday). Meetings start no earlier than 7:30pm and end before 10:00pm. Here you’ll find brief reports of many of our meetings. In these we try to include any web links or other pointers to further information that were provided by the speaker at the meeting. If you were at one of our meetings and would like to correct or expand the report relating to it then please email our webmaster.
Deep Sky Imaging – 24th August 2006
At this evening’s Members Evening, Mike McRoberts and Chris Suddell gave us an illustrated talk on the business of “Deep Sky Imaging”. First Mike, who’d …
Cosmology – 27th July 2006
Roger O’Brien’s talk on “Cosmology“ was a conversational journey from the Steady State Theory to the Big Bang Theory, with reference to the discovery of …
Spectroscopy – 22nd June 2006
Jack Martin made use of slides, laser pointers, and diffraction gratings to illustrate his talk on “Spectroscopy“. By shining both a green and a red …
Observing the Sun – 25th May 2006
John Chapman-Smith, a member of the council of the Society for Popular Astronomy, and a past director of its Solar Section, gave us a talk …
Landing on a Comet – 27th April 2006
Simeon Barber, who gave tonight’s talk entitled “Landing on a Comet“, stood in at short notice for Andrew Ball, who was called away to a …
Film vs. Digital – 23rd March 2006
Our second meeting at the Bonus Pastor School in Downham co-incided with a parents evening, so we met in a classroom upstairs rather than in …